This book offers a comprehensive and systematic overview of the
flourishing genre of the contemporary Latin American road movie, of
which Diarios de motocicleta and Y tu mamá también are only the
best-known examples. It offers the first systematic survey of the genre
and explains why the road movie is key to contemporary Latin American
cinema and society. Proposing the new category of "counter-road movie,"
and paying special attention to the genre's intricate relationship to
modernity, Nadia Lie charts the variety of the road movie through films
by both renowned and emerging filmmakers. The Latin American (Counter-)
Road Movie and Ambivalent Modernity engages with ongoing debates on
transnationalism and takes the reader along a wide range of topics, from
exile to undocumented migration, from tourism to internally displaced
people.